Newest CQQRS Team Member? Nope - a telegraph operator from the past, as depicted on a plaque outside the Post Offie in Chiltern Victoria. Dah-di-dah-di-dah Reports from Tuesday’s CQQRS Slow CW Practice QSO net indicate quite varied conditions - once…

Thanks this week to lan VK1HF for this nice image of the coms trailer he’s building. Interested in hosting the KiwiSDR? See below. I know you'll enjoy the reports this week from 40 of our team members about Tuesday's CQQRS…

Thanks this week to James VK7JZ for this shot taken during last week's net from the Cenotaph in Hobart with Mount Wellington in the background and the sun setting in the West. 40m vertical in the foreground of course! Dah-di-dah-di-dah…

I know you've seen this image before - last week’s RagChew included the nice article from James VK7JZ about his SOTA activation of Mount Hobbs - but I liked the shot so much that I thought I'd share it again.…

This week our prolific producer of interesting articles, Ross MONNK is off camping somewhere (hopefully dry this time!). Yet, he’s still managed to produce two excellent articles for the newsletter - thanks mate - outstanding. The sunny image above was…

His week, Morgan VK6MTF/MM continued his journey from Dunsborough WA to Tasmania in his maritime home, Sailing Yacht Emigre. Keep an eye on our CQQRS WhatsApp Alerts group for notification of when Morgan is on air, and perhaps have a…

Thanks this week to Jordan VK3ACU for this shot of his neighbour Martin VK3ADH helping to geolocate the latest antenna at the Meredith antenna test range - see below for more. However, the dogs think that’s a really boring caption…

Thanks this week to Jordan VK3ACU for this great image. Apparently there was a time when: a. electronic things were built by hand, component by component, and b. that there was a time when electronics was actually built in Australia.…

This week we bid farewell to Nigel G4RWI and Lady Josephine as they headed to Queensland for the last nibble of their six month visit to Australia and New Zealand before returning down-under to the UK. Nigel had been singularly…

Thanks this week to Ketut VK3BWN - we could just about hear the grin on his face when he was operating from his back porch on Tuesday night! See Other News for Ketut's terrific report - thanks for sharing your…

Dah-di-dah-di-dah Well well well - who'd have believed after the geomagnetic storm early in the week, that things would have settled down by Tuesday evening. I thought there was less CQQRS stations on 40m than usual when I listened, but…

Thanks this week to Dean VK3DL from Geelong for this useful tiy G'day from what Nigel G4RWI dubbed CQQRS HQ. Well it might be headquatered at Beautiful South Bowning, but in reality - CQQRS is about the 250+ operators and…

This week Mike DL3YZ has been back to his favourite antenna test range near Stuttgart. This time testing 15 m to VK, using a new triton hybrid multi-band antenna, a full-wave loop made out of 2 telescopic whips. Stay tuned…

This week your editor Mark VK2KI / VK6QI was back home after three weeks at South Gippsland Victoria. Boy oh boy! I nearly fell off my chair when I saw the spreadsheet produced by John VK2RU from the reports of…

Isn't this a beauty? Simon MOKBJ’s beautiful new 1970S vintage Kenwood TS-530SP, as used successfully on the CQQRS net on Tuesday. Everything’s right - microphone and gain controls are where they should be, narrow filter selected... woo hoo! And thank…

Stephen ZL3ABX near Nelson on the South Island with his home-brewed transceiver and the IC-705 used on this week’s CQQRS Slow CW Practice QSO Net. Would you believe we had 73 stations reported on Tuesday's CQQRS Slow CW Practice QSO…

Boy oh boy! Here was I telling Ms Elizabeth that this week’s newsletter would be out ina flash and wouldn't interrupt our pub-packing (low-carbon use, public transport- only, staying in local pubs, etc) holiday to Victoria at all. Well here…

Thanks this week to Nigel VK6NI who has responded to my request for non-copyright images. This one from his Cheyne Island 2007 Islands On The Air expedition. Great to see conditions returning to whatever Normal is at the moment on…

Thanks this week to Jordan VK3ACU - PIMLR perhaps? From the Dipped Quill of Mark VK2KI Hooray... the geomagnetic storm was a fading memory... and normality returned to the CQQRS Practice QSO Net on Tuesday night - this week we…

Thanks this week to Ross MONNK for the image; Ross has called this work of art ‘A Creepy Hand Sending CQ VK to No Effect’. The blue pad on a non-slip mat is a wrist support to put Ross’ hand…

Thanks this week to Nigel G4RWI for the shot from his current VK4 location Note the patented frying pan paddle stabiliser. Wowee... I think another world record of 72 stations on our Tuesday CQQRS Slow CW Practice QSO Net! Bloody…

Website If you’d like to find out a bit about our net, or would like to pass information to others about our Tuesday get-togethers, here’s the link to our website. bit.ly/CQQRSWebsite So here we go - please enjoy the newsletter.…

Thanks this week to James VK7JZ who set up briefly at Montrose Bay TAS on Tuesday evening. Weather looks charming. So many newsletters like this one start their first edition of the year with silly words like “welcome to...” etc,…

Thanks from the team at RagChew Central to every one of our 230+ membership who contributed to our newsletter this year! Fantastic! The mind was strong, but apparently the body wasn’t. Tuesday's CQQRS Slow CW Practice QSO Net was relatively…

Thanks this week to George VK2AOE for the hybrid delight... one-tube transmitter, DX-160 receiver... and a novel use of a 5-1/4" disk drive mount for what appears to be a digital VFO Looks to me like on the whole, we…